8 episodes
Just Listen The New Zealand Herald
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- Health & Fitness
Just Listen is a seven-part mental health podcast series, exploring how to support a person in serious and ongoing mental distress.
Six New Zealanders and their support people share their mental health journey and challenges with journalist and host Juliette Sivertsen, with the final episode featuring an expert panel to discuss kindness, boundaries, mindfulness and self-care.
These candid conversations aim to get people comfortable talking about mental health, to share stories of people living with a mental illness, and to discuss some of the helpful and not-so-helpful things some of us do and say when trying to help a person in distress.
Together, we can work to better support people in our communities, and learn to just listen.
Funded by the Mental Health Foundation of NZ, Like Minds Like Mine, supported by NZME.
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What does self-care really mean?
In this final episode of the Just Listen mental health podcast, host Juliette Sivertsen speaks with psychologist Anna Friis and psychiatrist Dr Tony Fernando.
Both Anna and Tony take a compassionate approach towards mental health and medicine. They... -
When grief leads to depression
In this episode of the Just Listen mental health podcast, host Juliette Sivertsen speaks with Newstalk ZB newsreader and marathon runner Niva Retimanu and how she learnt to live with depression.
Niva says she never dealt with the death of her... -
Navigating relationships when one person has PTSD
In this episode of the Just Listen mental health podcast, host Juliette Sivertsen speaks with sexual abuse survivor Tamara Waugh and her experience with post traumatic stress disorder, and dealing with multiple mental health diagnoses. Tamara is also...
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The difference between feeling anxious and anxiety
In this episode of the Just Listen mental health podcast, host Juliette Sivertsen speaks to Auckland man Mathew Nuttall about living with anxiety.
Mathew says at worst, he lost eight kilograms in two weeks due to his mental distress. He couldn’t... -
What is high-functioning depression?
In this episode of the Just Listen mental health podcast, host Juliette Sivertsen speaks with entrepreneur Philip McDonald about his journey with depression.
Philip was working in a high-pressure job in the finance industry when stress began to take... -
Bipolar disorder is just a label
In this episode of the Just Listen mental health podcast, host Juliette Sivertsen speaks with Samantha Adams about navigating her life through grief, a bipolar diagnosis, depression, drug abuse and psychosis.
Her journey began after watching her...